Academia (n.) is a haz-mat suit for dealing with lazy thought.
Academia (n.) is a chronic disease characterized by a compulsion to write lengthy specialized treatises in unintelligible vocabularies, for the purpose of rising in the esteem of those similarly afflicted.
Academia (n.) is a game of luck. Asking an academic for advice about grad school is like asking a lottery winner for financial advice.
Academia (n.) is the study of the passion-stains on the bedsheets of the orgasm of poetry.
The Archive (n.) records the people who could write, which is to say the people who could pay.
The Archive (n.) keeps whatever was too dull to throw out and loses whatever was used daily.
An Archive (n.) keeps the record and loses the reason anyone kept it.
An Archive (n.) is a basement with a citation format.
An Asylum (n.) is staffed by people who may leave at the end of a shift.
An Asylum (n.) is distinguished from a prison by the paperwork.
An Asylum (n.) offers safety on the condition that you stop deciding things.
Asylum (n.) is refuge that arrives with locked doors and new rules.
The Bank (n.) is the monster that has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
The Bank (n.) is something more than men. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
The Bank (n.) does nothing positive for anybody. It takes care of itself, is first in with its fees and first out when there's trouble.
A Bank (n.) is a prestigious establishment that in the end will lend us our own money.